And then there's this drawing of Black Cat. Of course, if I'd seen it before we produced ROLF!: Bat Meets Cat, I would have given her the Too Sexy for My Shirt Trait.
Showing posts with label Artwork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artwork. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
If we had an art budget....
.... beyond the money we find under the couch cushions when we are at our friends's homes, we would have cool art like this stuff by Jim Steranko in Oriental Stories 3: An American in Afghanistan. That anthology features Robert E. Howard's final great series character Francis X. Gordon, nicknamed El Borak.. These are some great El Borak drawings (whether or not that is who Steranko originally portrayed.).
And then there's this drawing of Black Cat. Of course, if I'd seen it before we produced ROLF!: Bat Meets Cat, I would have given her the Too Sexy for My Shirt Trait.
For more artwork by Steranko, check out this gallery at Shades of Gray.
And then there's this drawing of Black Cat. Of course, if I'd seen it before we produced ROLF!: Bat Meets Cat, I would have given her the Too Sexy for My Shirt Trait.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Cover illo for the latest ROLF! supplement
ROLF: The Death of Adolf Hitler will be available for purchase later today. Meanwhile, here's the cover illo for it. It's a composite of art from Darrel Miller and Karl M.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Some art created for "Supermodel Slapfest!"
Although it's hit some developmental bumps, the next ROLF! supplement is still in the works.
"Supermodel Slapfest!: A ROLF! Triumph of Style Over Substance" will be hitting the web Tuesday or Wednesday... although this slide in the schedule may mean that "ROLF AT SEA!" may be not out in time for International Speak Like a Pirate Day. Which is a real bummer to me.
Anyhow, there are some of the character portraits that have been created for "Supermodel Slapfest." The Combat Scenario itself will revolve around six supermodels locked in a building with a masked killer who is stalking and picking them off. Of course, the supermodels can also take the opportunity to kill hated rivals and blame it on the insane butcher.
"Supermodel Slapfest!: A ROLF! Triumph of Style Over Substance" will be hitting the web Tuesday or Wednesday... although this slide in the schedule may mean that "ROLF AT SEA!" may be not out in time for International Speak Like a Pirate Day. Which is a real bummer to me.
Anyhow, there are some of the character portraits that have been created for "Supermodel Slapfest." The Combat Scenario itself will revolve around six supermodels locked in a building with a masked killer who is stalking and picking them off. Of course, the supermodels can also take the opportunity to kill hated rivals and blame it on the insane butcher.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
The cover for NUELOW's "Names in the Black Book"
A host of computer problems this week has caused us to fall a little behind schedule here at NUELOW Central. The hope was to have our latest Robert E. Howard anthology available for download yesterday, but instead it will be sometime today. The ROLF! supplement will appear Saturday or Sunday, instead of Friday, as we had planned.
The good news is it gave me time to rethink the title of the Steve Harrison anthology... while he may be a detective in the River Street Precinct, only one story in the book actually takes place anywhere near River Street. So, that title simply didn't work!
But here's the cover for "Names in the Black Book," a small anthology featuring a trio of Robert E. Howard stories about Detective Steve Harrison and some particularly bone-chilling cases.
An interesting bit of trivia about the story from which the book draws its name: It's actually a sequel to a story that didn't see print during Howard's short career and lifetime.
The editors of "Strange Detective Stories" apparently rejected the first Steve Harrison adventure, "Lord of the Dead," but bought this sequel and two other Harrison tales--"The People of the Serpent" [which they published as "Fangs of Gold"] and "The Secret of the Tomb." The latter tale, they revised so it starred "Brock Rollins" instead of Steve Harrison.
That said, "Names in the Book of the Dead" works perfectly fine on its own. The tales here shows that Howard could write detective fiction as well as he wrote horror and fantasy... even if the detective adventures presented here overlap quite a bit with the horror genre.
By the way, these are some of the stories that critics point to when they say Howard's writing is racist. While I certainly agree that his tendency toward casual racism is in full force in all three stories--even more clearly as they all involve ethnic communities of one kind or another. I would like readers to notice that the hero, Officer Harrison, is not a racist. The same can't be said of the villains in "Graveyard Rats."
The good news is it gave me time to rethink the title of the Steve Harrison anthology... while he may be a detective in the River Street Precinct, only one story in the book actually takes place anywhere near River Street. So, that title simply didn't work!
But here's the cover for "Names in the Black Book," a small anthology featuring a trio of Robert E. Howard stories about Detective Steve Harrison and some particularly bone-chilling cases.
An interesting bit of trivia about the story from which the book draws its name: It's actually a sequel to a story that didn't see print during Howard's short career and lifetime.
The editors of "Strange Detective Stories" apparently rejected the first Steve Harrison adventure, "Lord of the Dead," but bought this sequel and two other Harrison tales--"The People of the Serpent" [which they published as "Fangs of Gold"] and "The Secret of the Tomb." The latter tale, they revised so it starred "Brock Rollins" instead of Steve Harrison.
That said, "Names in the Book of the Dead" works perfectly fine on its own. The tales here shows that Howard could write detective fiction as well as he wrote horror and fantasy... even if the detective adventures presented here overlap quite a bit with the horror genre.
By the way, these are some of the stories that critics point to when they say Howard's writing is racist. While I certainly agree that his tendency toward casual racism is in full force in all three stories--even more clearly as they all involve ethnic communities of one kind or another. I would like readers to notice that the hero, Officer Harrison, is not a racist. The same can't be said of the villains in "Graveyard Rats."
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Happy birthday, H.P. Lovecraft
Today, August 20, is the birthday of H.P. Lovecraft, groundbreaking horror writer and the first guy to write about fresh-ripping, gore-spreading zombies. If you haven't read his "Herbert West, Re-Animator" stories, you should do so now. Click here to read them for free at Steve Miller's Fiction Archive... or wait until October when they will be featured in a horror anthology we're putting together in celebration of Halloween (when you can read them a whole slew of other cool horror stories--including ones from this decade).
Aside from reading the Lovecraft stories, we here at NUELOW Games is celebrating his birthday by giving you a gift! For Saturday, the latest ROLF! supplement--a Lovecraft-inspired effort titled "Herbert West vs. the Zombies"--can be had free of charge by clicking here. (A copy of "ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters" is required for full enjoyment of the product, however.)
Also, here's Jeff Preston & Karl M.'s portrait of Herbert West, as found in the product..
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Aside from reading the Lovecraft stories, we here at NUELOW Games is celebrating his birthday by giving you a gift! For Saturday, the latest ROLF! supplement--a Lovecraft-inspired effort titled "Herbert West vs. the Zombies"--can be had free of charge by clicking here. (A copy of "ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters" is required for full enjoyment of the product, however.)
Also, here's Jeff Preston & Karl M.'s portrait of Herbert West, as found in the product..
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The Women of Elmore
Fantasy artist Larry Elmore was one of the major reasons TSR, Inc. and its roleplaying games became as popular as they did. His iconic fantasy images, particularly the paintings and character designs he created for the "Dragonlance" property, fueled the imaginations of a generation.
Elmore's lines grace numerous NUELOW Games releases, with his illustrations being virtually part and parcel with the "ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters" line, but also appearing on the cover of our first Robert E. Howard anthology "The Deadly Sword of Cormac." We consider ourselves fortunate to have license to use his art in our products.
Here's a selection of beautiful ladies that have sprung from his pen and brush over the years.
Elmore's lines grace numerous NUELOW Games releases, with his illustrations being virtually part and parcel with the "ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters" line, but also appearing on the cover of our first Robert E. Howard anthology "The Deadly Sword of Cormac." We consider ourselves fortunate to have license to use his art in our products.
Here's a selection of beautiful ladies that have sprung from his pen and brush over the years.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Yes, I am available for commissions.
A great artist was lost to the world when I chose to become a writer....
That's a portrait of Bigfoet, the Tyrolian Yeti, as will be seen in the upcoming NUELOW Games release "Icing Oetzi: A ROLF! Historical Recreation".
That's a portrait of Bigfoet, the Tyrolian Yeti, as will be seen in the upcoming NUELOW Games release "Icing Oetzi: A ROLF! Historical Recreation".
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
I got a little more elaborate than usual...
... with my cover design for the NUELOW Games edition of John Kendrick Bangs' "Alice in Blunderland".
I keep the cover images for the NUELOW releases very, very simple so they'll shrink down for display on sales listings on websites, and I think I may have outsmarted myself with this one. It doesn't shrink nearly as nicely as others. Still, I like the look.
If you follow politics at all, this book might actually be of interest to you. Although it was written in 1907, the jokes seem disturbingly relevant as Alice travels to a place where dimwitted politicos govern by whim and they view everyone and everything as their personal property. And that includes the teeth in people's heads and whatever they think of as their "private lives." Check it out. Plus, the $0.99 you'll spend goes to a great cause: Keeping me in house and home!
(BTW, I use the term "design" loosely when referring to the covers I make for the NUELOW Games products. All I do is make a logo, select art or photos from my archive [but limiting myself to the things I am certain I have clear rights to], and then put them together with a couple of graphics editing programs. As a graphic designer, I make a great games publisher!)
I keep the cover images for the NUELOW releases very, very simple so they'll shrink down for display on sales listings on websites, and I think I may have outsmarted myself with this one. It doesn't shrink nearly as nicely as others. Still, I like the look.
If you follow politics at all, this book might actually be of interest to you. Although it was written in 1907, the jokes seem disturbingly relevant as Alice travels to a place where dimwitted politicos govern by whim and they view everyone and everything as their personal property. And that includes the teeth in people's heads and whatever they think of as their "private lives." Check it out. Plus, the $0.99 you'll spend goes to a great cause: Keeping me in house and home!
(BTW, I use the term "design" loosely when referring to the covers I make for the NUELOW Games products. All I do is make a logo, select art or photos from my archive [but limiting myself to the things I am certain I have clear rights to], and then put them together with a couple of graphics editing programs. As a graphic designer, I make a great games publisher!)
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